On Thursday, the free agent rookie from SMU got behind former NCAA track champion Teddy Williams and made a nice adjustment to catch a long pass from Kyle Orton.

Head coach Jason Garrett spoke last month about how a player in Beasley’s position needs to make a play or two every practice to stay on the staff’s radar to have a chance to make the team. That is what the 5-foot-8, 177-pound receiver has done so far this off-season.

“I can’t have any days off,’’ Beasley said. “Once you show a weakness, they’re always going to talk about it because you’re a smaller guy. I’m not the prototypical size for the position. I’m way smaller than the prototypical size. But I have some strengths a lot of people don’t have.

“I have a lot of quickness. I don’t think there is anybody out there as quick as me, not just the Cowboys or anywhere else. I’m confident in my abilities to be quicker than everyone else out there.